Earth Final Conflict Final Scene
Aug24

Earth Final Conflict...

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In this week’s Clip of the Week, we bring you the best scene from Season Five of the show (which, to be honest, was a pretty catastrophic disaster overall).  It also happens to be the last scene.  This isn’t one of those, “it’s brilliant because it’s...

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Top 7 Tips for Creating New Sci-Fi in 2012
Aug04

Top 7 Tips for Creating New Sci-Fi in 2012

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Sci-Fi has changed. Over the past fifty years, the topics and settings that capture the imaginations of viewers and readers everywhere have shifted. Where Star Trek once captivated millions, now the going boldly through outer space routine appears to have been worn out. The transformation has led modern science fiction series to feature elements of futuristic technologies and discoveries, but set in modern day. Take Falling Skies, probably about as genuinely sci-fi in terms of aliens as you can get on mainstream television today, yet still set in a world we can recognise and understand. Why is that? Do we connect more readily with characters...

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7 Great Morally Dubious Characters of Sci-Fi TV
Jul25

7 Great Morally Dubi...

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Topless Robot have uploaded their 7 Great Morally Dubious Characters of Sci-Fi TV. Quite how they can put Nerus from SG-1, and Todd from Atlantis in ahead of Robert Carlyle’s Nicholas Rush from Stargate: Universe is beyond me.  And where is Earth: Final Conflict‘s Ronald...

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Five ways to ruin a perfectly good sci-fi show
Sep09

Five ways to ruin a ...

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Sci-Fi has a long and proud history of cancellation. Perfectly good shows (and plenty of plain awful shows) have seen the axe for a multitude of different reasons. Let’s take a look at five sure-fire ways to ruin a decent show. 1) Air your show on FOX As Firefly, The Sarah Connor...

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Earth: Final Conflict – worth a remake?
Jul21

Earth: Final Conflic...

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It’s been over seven years since Earth: Final Conflict ended its five year run. Over that run, it produced some 110 episodes spread across five seasons.  It opened with strong critical acclaim, but after the departure of show lead Kevin Kilner, the series declined creatively to...

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